Dr.  Heena Rathore

Dr Heena Rathore is a Research Scientist and Program Manager at Hiller Measurements. She was a post doctorate researcher for US-Qatar Joint Collaborative Project between Temple University, USA, University of Idaho, USA and Qatar University. Also, she was a visiting scholar for Wichita State University. She received her Ph.D. (with distinction) in Computer Science and Engineering Department while she was a Tata Consultancy Services Research Scholar at Indian Institute of Technology, India. She received her bachelor’s in Computer Science Engineering from College of Technology and Engineering in 2010 with Honors. She has also worked professionally as Design Executive with Phosphate India Private Limited and academically as Guest/Assistant Professor with University of Texas, Austin and SS College of Engineering, India respectively. She has been the winner of number of prestigious awards including Global Engineering Impact Awards and Graphical System Design Achievement Awards by National Instruments. She has published more than 25 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences in her field and is the sole author of Mapping Biological Systems to Network Systems (Springer). She was also featured on TedX, Qatar held by TedXAlDafnaEd in Qatar and her work is covered in professional and major trade publications, major media, such as Mircrowave Journal, Everything RF, Financial Express, Science Reporter, Times of India, and India Today. She has been invited as a panelist, TPC member and has been a chair for multiple sessions. She is a reviewer of many peer-reviewed journals and conferences in IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, IET etc. Her research interests include cyber physical systems, deep learning, machine learning, security, cryptocurrency, distributed systems, wireless networks biologically inspired systems and software defined networks.

ACM Involvement:
Dr Rathore is an active member of ACM since 2019 and is a senior member of IEEE. She has contributed her work on industrial control systems and connected vehicles in ACM transactions on sensor networks, and in AutoSec Workshop  in conjuction with ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy. She is a program committee member of posters of ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), 2019.

• Deep Learning Based Security Solutions for the Internet of Medical Things
  Intelligent healthcare has gained importance in the recent past since it allows continuous, remote monitoring of patients away from hospitals and doctors. With advances in technology,...
• Improving Security in the Internet of Things(IoT) through Bio-Inspired Approaches
  As massive amounts of Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices are approaching to change our lives, security in these devices is crucial. The security threats from traditional Internet...
• Is Future of Safety in Autonomous Vehicles Blockchain or IOTA?
  Connected vehicles are set to define the future of transportation, however, this upcoming technology continues to be plagued with serious security risks. If these risks are not addressed in...
• Strategies for Making Cyber-Physical Systems Secure
  Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) consist of sensing and cyber components controlled by digital and analog signals.  Such systems are engineered for human interaction through tightly...